Revisiting Countermeasures Against NDN Interest Flooding

Interest flooding has been identified as a major threat for the NDN infrastructure. Since then several approaches have been proposed to identify and to mitigate this attack. In this paper, we (a) classify nine existing countermeasures and (b) compare them in a consistent evaluation setup. We discuss the application of pure prefix-based as well as pure interfacebased mitigation strategies in different network scenarios. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.0 [Computer-Communication Networks]: General— Security and protection; C.2.2 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Protocols—Routing Protocols Keywords ICN; NDN; Interest flooding; attack; mitigation

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ACMICN
• Authors: Samir Al-Sheikh, Matthias Wählisch, Thomas C. Schmidt
• Keywords: ACMICN 2015